Dew Drop – January 10, 2012 (#1,238)

Top Links

• JSON Toolkit 2.0 (CodePlex)
• Node.JS on Windows Azure Part 1: Setting Up Your Environment (Aaron Stannard)
• Every public change is a breaking change (Eric Lippert)
• If you like typing XAML you will love ReSharper 6.1 ! (Jeremy Alles)
• jQuery Mobile Upcoming Releases: 1.0.1, 1.1, and beyond (Todd Parker)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Northwind Starter Kit Review: Data Access and the essence of needless work, Part I (Oren Eini)
• Intellitrace in VS2010 (Mark)
• Deploying Visual Studio 2008 ClickOnce Projects in TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• Visual Studio 11 ALM VHD’s, VirtualBoxed (and even on x86 hosts too) (Greg Duncan)
• Breaking Changes in the LINQ to Twitter Search API (Joe Mayo)
• Extension Method of the Day – IsReallyFuckingNullOrEmpty() (Scott C. Reynolds)
• “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” [ManagedMsiExec sample app shows how to use the Windows Installer API from managed code] (David Anson)
• I Hate You, OutDir parameter (Pete Seale)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 Game Development – Lesson 6 (Andrey Prikaznov)
• Animated Web Banners With CSS3 (Caleb Jacob)
• CSS Corner: Using the Whole Font (Sylvain Galineau)
• Minify JavaScript using UglifyJS and NodeJS (Jonathan Creamer)
• Sencha: The 2012 HTML5 Wishlist (Michael Mullany)
• HTML5 Will Replace Native Apps–But It Will Take Longer Than You Think (AAPL, GOOG, ADBE) (Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry)
• Cascading DropDownList in ASP.Net MVC (Rick Anderson)
• Ruby On REST 3: One Model, Multiple Representations! (Nick Sutterer)
• Windows Azure Libraries for Java 0.1 December 2011 CTP (MS Downloads)
• Creating Printer Friendly Pages (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Web Fonts, now more compressed (Scott Knaster)
• Fix Common IE Problems: Update your Docmode for Web Standards (Rey Bango)
• Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure : Running Hive Scripts from Interactive Hive Console (Avkash Chauhan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fluent API in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
• O’ Reilly Deal of the Day 10/Jan/2012 – Version Control with Git (Tatworth)
• Gallio plugin for the VS2011 Test Window and MbUnit 101: Assert.That (Andy Stopford)
• [Agile Tool Review] – EasyBacklog – Quick and Easy Backlog Management (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #5 Basic XAML (Windows Phone Geek)
• Crafting the Øredev Windows Phone app live tile (Andreas Hammar)
• WPF Elements 5 Dashboard Sample (Jason)
• Silverlight Reporting Open Source Printing/Reports Example Updated for Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #469 – Filling a UniformGrid from Right to Left (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Audio from 2012 Microsoft CES Keynote (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 171 – PowerScripting Podcast – Listener Call-In (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Tablet Show – Kevin McNeish Prefers Objective-C (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Gweek 034: Giant Jenga! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Engadget Podcast 271: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 36 (Richard Hay)
• New Video: Integrating Test Studio with Team Pulse (Jim Holmes)
• VIDEO: First look at the Nokia Lumia 710 and LTE-powered HTC Titan II (Ben Rudolph)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for January 9th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m a CodeProject MVP 2012 (Shai Raiten)
• Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Windows Phone 7.5 Background Workers and 10 Days Left to Catch an Early-bird Discount for the 4-day XAML Training in London (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone Camps in London (4th Feb) and Bristol (11th Feb) and Updated agenda for Six Weeks of Windows Azure now available #6weeksazure (Eric Nelson)
• AT&T shows off coming new Windows Phones at CES (Mary Jo Foley)
• Webinar: Test Dependencies & Legacy Code (Avi Kaye)
• Proud to be a CodeProject MVP 2012 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Rewarded as Codeproject MVP 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Steve Ballmer Was ON FIRE At Today’s AT&T Event In Vegas (Matt Rosoff)
• Git Events in Pittsburgh on February 21st & 22nd (Matthew McCullough)
• CES 2012: TI’s OMAP platform to power Windows 8 tablets (Michael)
• CES: Nokia Lumia 900, gorgeous and 4G fast, comes to AT&T (Michael Stroh)
• CES 2012: Kinect For Windows Retail Pricing Revealed (Richard Hay)

 

Database

• SQL Server –WRITELOG and how to reduce it (Jack Vamvas)
• Consolidating SQL Server Databases (David Barbarin)
• SQL SERVER – Locking, Blocking and Deadlock – Quiz – Puzzle – 9 of 31 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• How To Add Custom ASP.NET Page Using Layouts Folder Approach in SharePoint2010 (Member 3664831)

 

Miscellaneous

• Nokia Lumia 900 official: 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED, 4G LTE, exclusive to AT&T (Daniel Cooper)
• Microsoft in 2012: two screens and a question mark (Ed Bott)
• Adobe Lightroom 4 enters free public beta with new editing tools and photo books (Jacob Schulman)
• Starting February 1, 2012: Use the Power of Kinect for Windows to Change the World (Craig Eisler)
• Learning Android: Robolectric – Testing details got saved to SharedPreferences (Mark Needham)
• Om Nom Now Om Line (Ryan Gavin)
• Setting a Custom Icon for your External Drives in Windows Explorer (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 01.01 ~ 01.09 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #792 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Azure Postings–10/01/2012 (BizTalk Visionary)
• The Morning Brew #1018 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 02-08, 2012 and Daily News Digest 1/10/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• NEW! Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #1) (Himanshu Singh)

 

The Geek Shelf

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